Red Reporter · Dec 1, 2020
What will the Reds do with their bullpen this winter?
Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty ImagesAfter all of the angst spent on the Cincinnati Reds’ bullpen in the opening weeks of the 2020 season, the group’s performance for the year wound up finishing right in the middle of the pack. They were 15th in the majors in relief WAR, according to FanGraphs, 17th in ERA, and 18th in FIP. That’s more or less where they were always expected to end up — the year before, they finished 13th in ERA and 12th in FIP, and there were no major additions or subtractions from that group from one year to the next. The Reds had a deep, talented, but often flawed group of relief arms coming into the year, and the group can be described the same way now that the season is a month expired.